He Xianjie chose TU biopharmaceuticals as his major partly due to his keen interest in the field and partly out of the advice by his teachers and parents. When he entered the university, he became aware that the professional courses were not as boring as he had thought. Instead, it is practical and he takes delight in the learning.
He has a clear plan for his study. He divided his university life into two stages of "3+1": to acquire professional knowledge in the first three years, and to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination in the last year. In the two stages, he further split the time into each month and day. Every month, he systematically reviewed and consolidated his learning achievements. Every day, no matter how busy he is, he would take time to review the professional knowledge he learned during the day, marked the parts he has not yet understood, and consulted his teachers and classmates in time.
He has his "tricks of the trade" for learning. Concerning study atmosphere, he doesn’t consider it appropriate to follow the crowd blindly. Some prefer to study in clusters while others alone, so we should choose the type suiting ourselves. Recitation has been a problem for many students. He believes that rather than relying on short term memory, it is more efficient to spend some time to understand first, extract a long sentence into many small knowledge points, and then summarize in his own words and recite on the basis of understanding. It is less likely to forget.
With a down-to-earth attitude, clear goals, and unique study methods, He ranked among the best in his major in both intellectual and overall grades. He was awarded with the National scholarship and the first-class scholarship of the university, and won the honors of "Merit Student" of the University,"Top Ten Learning Model" of the university, etc.
In addition to his steady efforts in academics, He was also involved in academic competitions. The 14th Zhejiang University Life Science Competition, one of the contests he participated in impressed him with its twists and turns.
The experiment proceeded slowly at first during the preparatory stage of the competition, so he communicated with his teachers and students, and reasonably allocated tasks among the group members, which eventually got the project gradually back on track. The members needed to plant ryegrass for the competition research, but they were blown down by high winds due to an oversight. That meant that all their previous efforts were lost. But he did not give up. He learned from the experience and restarted the experiment and one month later the seedlings again grew to a level suitable for research. He finally won the third prize in the 14th Zhejiang University Life Science Competition.
In addition, He developed a simple device for liquid microextraction with his team members, and obtained a national utility model patent. The design required an internal analysis of the instrument's parameter structure, but the team mates were not specialized in mechanics. So He consulted his two roommates who had participated in a mathematical modeling competition, and had several discussions with his mentor to jointly determine the fixed and pressurized parts of the device. Finally, they successfully developed the device with high efficiency and low pollution.
Facing the difficult and uncertain path of scientific research, He said, "That's how scientific research is. If you want to succeed, you first need to sustain failure."
He is also progressive in his work. During his freshman year, he was determined to get out of his "comfort zone" and became a junior officer in the Web Publicity Department of the School Committee's News Center. He said that serving as a Web Publicity Officer exposed him to tweeting and improved his ability to work efficiently with the team. In order to make time for learning, He learned to break the "information gap" in the department, asking his colleagues for the draft of the event's press release in advance and making preliminary tweet templates, which improved his productivity.
In his sophomore year, He served as the vice president of his class. Through the innumerous communications with the class president and his teachers, he grew into experienced student leader with more management skills, and built close ties between himself and his classmates. His rich work experience helped him understand the significance of teamwork and laid a solid foundation for his later participation in volunteer activities and summer and winter practices.
When it comes to the most impressive practice activity, He mentioned the practice of "Thanksgiving Alma Mater" in the winter vacation in 2022, which brought him a lot of insights. Due to the limitations of the epidemic preventions and controls, He's team could only offer online lectures. They gave detailed interpretations to the policies concerning “the Trinity Admissions” that the high school students were interested in but knew little about. Their labor was praised and approved by the teachers, students and parents of his alma mater. "This presentation successfully harvested hundreds of views and made people sprout more expectations for Taizhou University, an application-oriented university." said He.